The texts listed below are considered to be of literary merit and suitable for study at NCEA Level 3 and level 8 of the curriculum because they allow the students to respond critically:
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| Text Title |
Text Author |
Comment |
| Playboy of the western world |
J M Synge |
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| The Songmaker's Chair |
Albert Wendt |
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| Bellbird : a play |
Stephen Sinclair |
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| Juno and the Paycock |
Sean O'Casey |
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| Wednesday to Come |
Renee |
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| Children of the Poor |
Mervyn Thompson |
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| Equus |
Peter Schaffer |
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| The Royal Hunt of the Sun |
Peter Schaffer |
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| The glass menagerie |
Tenessee Williams |
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| The crucible |
Arthur Miller |
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| Translations |
Brian Friel |
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| A Doll’s House |
Henrik Ibsen |
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| Death and the Maiden |
Ariel Dorfman |
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| Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
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| Dr Faustus |
Christopher Marlowe |
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| Foreskin’s Lament |
Greg McGee |
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| King Lear |
Shakespeare |
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| Lady Windermere’s Fan |
Oscar Wilde |
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| Master Harold and the Boys |
Athol Fugard |
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| Much Ado About Nothing |
Shakespeare |
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| Ophelia Thinks Harder |
Jean Betts |
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| Othello |
Shakespeare |
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| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
Tom Stoppard |
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| The History Boys |
Alan Bennett |
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| The Kid |
Michael Gow |
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| The Laraime Project |
Moises Kaufman |
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| Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? |
Edward Albee |